By then, TWA had been taken over by American (in 2001) and despite an early effort to keep the hub going, it only shrank from that point. The hub officially closed in 2009, the same year the Air ...

Mexicana was fine, but the real star of the show was the Embraer E2.

My gate was further down, so I just grabbed a seat toward the base of the concourse and checked email using the free wifi, still having an hour until my flight. I then got up, bought a bottle of water ...

Whew, and just like that, the 2026 Cranky Network Awards presented by Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport are done. We had another huge turnout, and there were a lot of happy winners. There were ...

It’s time to kick off this Mexican travelogue with a look at how I got across the border in the first place. None of my flights ever touched the United States. Instead, I decided to go down to San ...

Whew, and just like that, the 2026 Cranky Network Awards presented by Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport are done. We had another… Continue Reading: The Winners of the 2026 Cranky Network Awards ...

Nat started his career at Northwest in finance in 1997. He took over alliances in 2005, and he then made his way to Delta in the merger, handling alliances and fleet strategy at different times. After ...

If Memphis was Northwest’s way of getting geographically beyond its core hubs, Cincinnati did the same thing for Delta but in reverse. Delta was already strong in the south with the impenetrable ...

You may have heard that news that former American Chief Commercial Officer Vasu Raja has been hired by United Airlines to temporarily run its Kinective Media group as part of a larger shake-up in ...

When I wrote recently about American’s efforts to create a fortress network, there was one obvious outlier. While American has tried to grow its position in the places where it is most dominant, the ...